I know mastodon joked about not changing their name in their recent changelog but I wish they really did change it. It’s long, doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue and it’s difficult to pronounce in most languages.
End of rant.
Edit: above all I don’t think it’s a cool name. Can’t imagine asking my friends to follow me on Mastodon. They’re just gonna think it’s something dumb or weird. At least if it had a cool name they would be curious and ask what it’s about.
X is an even worse name, as it looks like a placeholder, not a brand. At least with Mastodon someone is going to know what you’re talking about (assuming they know it exists). Even though I know X exists and is named X, when I see it in articles it still throws me and I think it always will. They really need to write/say x.com for clarity. But there pretty silly now and feels very 90s. Which makes sense, since Elon bought it in the 90s.
X pisses me off because every time I see an embedded tweet on a news article, I instinctively click the X in the top right corner to try to close it, and instead it opens up some shithole website instead.